Fiber Frenzie

Some of the fiber I purchased this weekend and last.
I think I am going to spin up the black & white next.

Saturday is a special day....

It's the day we buy fiber and spin it!Merino (above)

Merino & Tencel (the solid orange on the left). The Merino from above photo spun up on the spool. I plyed them together and it is the second from the bottom in the last photo.

The above ball of yarn is the outside of the picture below.
Yes, they look totally different :)

I took this photo when I was in the middle of winding the ball so this is the beauty inside!

It's 12:30pm and tonight that means it is really 1:30am Sunday MORNING!!!
UGH I have got to get to bed...
but not before I show you what I spun up tonight.This is the "yarn ball tower" of everything I spun up tonight.

Who goes there?

This is my desk.

well, part of it....

Yesterday I was working and looked up to find this little guy staring at me.

We are always finding quirky little things in the office and often present
(surprise/scare/taunt)
them at/to one another.
I left Sylvia a handful of really ugly feathers on sticks in an
ALREADY UGLY
flower arrangement at her desk.

She decided to leave me a little gift.

HE NEEDS A NAME... ANY IDEAS?

A place we should not have been...

Have you ever gone somewhere and
KNOWN
you did not belong and were not really all that welcome?

This past Saturday Brian and I went to a little town (which shall remain nameless) not far from where he lives. We completed our task/shopping/adventure and needed nourishment.
We inquired as to a "good B-B-Q joint" and were promptly directed to .....It was prefaced by
"It looks like a shack but is suppose to be the best B-B-Q in the state of TEXAS!"

followed by....
"I have never been there...."

We decided to "go there"

We were totally game ... and hungry.

We knew from the moment we walked in the door that we had no business being there!

We enjoyed our meal... nothing to rave about ...and left quickly.

I personally like Dad's B-B-Q
MUCH
better.

You spin me right round baby, right round... like a record baby....

Shattered

There will be no photo with this post as I couldn't bring myself to take a picture. A few moments ago I was rummaging through my tiny kitchen cabinet and a HUGE can of soup fell out and landed on my collection of Pie Birds. :(

I wanted to cry.

I still might.

Two of my black birds were shattered into unrecognizable pieces. Two of my tiny whistle birds were also broken. I'm not as sad about the whistle birds because they are just a little china trinket from an old vendor/friend.

I'm most sad about my Pie Birds because they are rare and hard to find.

I am however relieved that my Mammy & Pappy pie birds survived as well as one Black Bird and one Brown Bird.

*Sigh*

I think I am going to take a nap.

I hate tiny apartment kitchens and Progresso soup.

Spinning 101

Ok so it wasn't my first time Spinning.

I have owned my Wheel (Ashford Kiwi) for about 4 years now and only spun about three different times/pieces of roving.

I arranged to take a spinning class from Cindy at Jacob's Reward Farm.

Here are my singles on the wheel.

We spent two hours together and she taught me to ply!

My plied fiber on the wheel.

On the niddy noddy.

My beautiful Skein!

My yarn (and fingers) are spotlighted on Cindy's Bog.
Check them out!